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Maybe you’ve seen their little green button on blogs around the internet, maybe you haven’t. Sweden based Flattr has been flying generally under the radar up until this point, not making too much of a dent in the world of curated and crowd funded media to have us take too much of a notice. But now, a huge win for the tiny company that allows users to easily, and affordably, crowd fund blogs and projects that they like with a click of the button. This relieves the stress of having to donate via Paypal or some other option. While since the inception of Flattr, Kickstarter has become the premier source for funding larger projects, Flattr still has the potential to niche out the market of non-development projects and spread around the wealth. A new partnership with the world’s second largest video portal, Dailymotion.com, might help with that.

Founded by Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi (former The Pirate Bay spokesperson) and Linus Olsson, Flattr believes that the internet is not just an entertainment platform and was brought to full fruition in 2010. Since then, the little green buttons have been popping up on the internet, and the curated pages for projects on the Flattr site have grown, but they were still not getting the attention that their innovative idea deserved. While the classical sense of donation requires specific amounts, Flattr allows you to sign up and set your own monthly donation amount. Every time you click that little green button, that click gets logged. At the end of the month, your donation gets spread around like lice at a hostel to all the sites you clicked on. So they might receive a fraction of a penny or a dollar from you, depending on your number of clicks.